The Race for Identity
A special Fourth of July report on race in America.
by Roger Clegg, vice president & general counsel, Center for Equal Opportunity
Before you can figure out how you can get to where you are going, you better first figure out where you want to go. Now that we’ve started a new century, where do we want race relations in this country to go?
No society is literally colorblind, of course, and Americans are certainly likely to notice skin color for the foreseeable future. But a realistic objective is for Americans to treat race and non-European ethnicity the way they now treat various kinds of European ethnicity. We may be conscious of such ethnicity, even embracing or disapproving of it from time to time, but for most of us, most of the time, it is of only casual interest.